Notes from the Velvet UndergroundNotes from the Velvet Underground is the definitive biography of Lou Reed, one of modern music's most influential artists. COMPELLING The Sunday Telegraph CONTROVERSIAL Sounes' book pushes the standard Reed narrative The New York Times Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent